A companion to American cultural history / / edited by Karen Halttunen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807857403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2008
• ISBN: 1-78268-415-8; 1-281-31882-5; 9786611318826; 1-4051-8030-7; 0-470-69176-X; 0-470-69109-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to American history
• Altri autori (Persone): HalttunenKaren <1951->
• Disciplina: 973
• Soggetti: United States Civilization Study and teaching (Higher); United States Civilization Historiography; United States Study and teaching (Higher); United States Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Early America; 1. Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans; 2. Cultures of Colonial Settlement; 3. British America in the Eighteenth Century; 4. The Revolution and the Early Republic; Part II: The Nineteenth Century; 5. Antebellum Cultural History; 6. Religion and Reform; 7. Black Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 8. The Civil War in American Culture; 9. The West; 10. The Gilded Age; 11. Immigration and Ethnic Culture; 12. Cultural Watersheds in FIN DE SIÈCLE America; Part III: The Twentieth Century 13. Consumer Culture and Mass Culture; 14. Modernism; 15. Politics and Culture in the 1930's and 1940's; 16. The 1950's and 1960's; 17. The Globalization of American Culture; Part IV: Thematic and Methodological Approaches; 18. Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History; 19. Situating Visual Culture; 20. Material Cultures; 21. Performance and Display; 22. Gender and ; Sexuality; 23. Race and Ethnicity; 24. Popular Culture; 25. History and Memory; Part V: The Cultural Turn in Other Fields; 26. Culturalist Approaches to Intellectual History; 27. The Impact of the Culture Concept on Social History 28. Religious History and the Cultural Turn; 29. Political History and the Tool of Culture; 30. The Cultural History of Foreign Relations; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.30 essays explore the history of American culture at all analytic levels Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from